THE NEXT ICE AGE - NOW!

"It
wasn't the impact of an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 65
million years ago, reports Science Daily of new research from
Cardiff University in Wales. "It was a mantle plume, a huge
volcanic eruption from deep within Earth's mantle...."
"The massive outpouring of lava, ashes, and gas can have
significant effects on climate."

"A
huge outpouring of molten rock 250 million years ago may have been the
decisive factor in the deaths of nearly all life forms on the Earth at
that time," says a recent article in the journal Science.

The
flood basalts at the Siberian Traps covered around 3.9 million square
kilometers, says Marc Reichow, of the University of Leicester, UK., an
area much larger than previously believed.

Question.
If the vast majority of volcanic activity takes place under
water, wouldn't it seem as if an underwater area several times
the size
of Australia should have been concurrently covered with a mile-deep
layer of
lava?

And every single one of those
millions of kilometers
of lava would
have been incredibly hot; up to 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit
hot.

It's
not global warming, it's ocean warming, and it's leading us
into
an ice age.

I
think the same thing happened at the dinosaur extinction of 65
million years ago. For anyone familiar with that extinction, you know
that
there was a huge volcanic outpouring at the time known as the
Deccan
Traps. It covered one million square miles of India and the
surrounding areas
under successive layers of basalt up to one-and-a-
half-miles deep.

Note: According to paleontologist Dewey McLean (personal
communication), a good portion of the Deccan Traps
was submarine.
This would explain why ocean temperatures
at the
dinosaur extinction
rose by some 14° to 22°F.

1 Nov 03 - Peter Ward, a University of Washington paleontologist, thinks
intense volcanic activity may have caused widespread extinctions 250 million
years ago at the end-Permian, and about 200 million years ago at the
end-Triassic.http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031101/80/ecr08.html